[NCUC-DISCUSS] important information

[Zakir Syed]

Thank you Raifk, This truly is an extraordinary announcement. Has Peter responded or shared any explanation to this or we/the NCUC are waiting for a response from him?

On the "longstanding principle of NCUC membership eligibility rules that people or organizations that are members of another SG or constituency in the GNSO cannot also be members of NCUC"
Does that mean if an organization is ineligible for membership of NCUC, its employees/associates cannot become individual members of NCUC?? 

Best, 
Zakir


      From: Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
 To: "ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org" <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org> 
 Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 8:45 AM
 Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] important information
   
Dear members:
I am sharing with you an important and extraordinary announcement. Last week the NCUC EC agreed to ask one of its members, Peter Green, to resign. It was not an easy act or one that we took lightly, and we had to think about it for some time. Our action was necessary because of an undeclared conflict of interest and a clash with our membership eligibility rules.
Peter is an employee of CONAC, a TLD registry associated with the government of China. As a CONAC employee, he is an active member of and participant in the Registry Stakeholder Group. It has been a longstanding principle of NCUC membership eligibility rules that people or organizations that are members of another SG or constituency in the GNSO cannot also be members of NCUC (bylaws III.3). This is done to prevent other interest groups from attempting to control or unduly shape our Constituency, which is devoted to noncommercial user interests.
Peter has been actively working on behalf of the Registry SG for some time, even as he has been serving on our Executive Committee. This is evident from articles such as thishttp://www.chinagov.cn/ english/News/CONACNews/201509/ t20150924_281168.html and from records of the registry constituency working group such as this https://community.icann.org/ display/S1SF/Drafting+Team We note with concern that Peter's Conflict of Interest statement when running for election to the NCUC EC failed to mention his employment at CONAC. 
I wanted you to be aware of this issue and to understand the basis for our actions.
Best Regards,
Rafik Dammak
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 Dear Peter (Zuan Zhang): For some time we (the undersigned representatives of the Executive Committee) have received complaints or expressions of concern about your eligibility for membership in the Noncommercial Stakeholders Group. The EC has investigated this matter and has come to the conclusion that you are ineligible for NCSG membership and thus must resign from the NCUC Executive Committee immediately. We want to make it clear that this is not caused by any misconduct on your part; it is purely a matter of applying our eligibility rules. Your contribution to our EC has been exemplary, but we cannot continue to contradict our membership rules. This would open the door to many other ineligible members and possible abuses. We hope you can accept this decision in a good spirit. Section 2.2.2 of the NCSG charter specifically excludes from membership "Organizations that are represented in ICANN through another Supporting Organization." Section 2.2.5 of the NCSG charter makes it clear that individuals are eligible only if they are "not represented in ICANN through membership in another Supporting Organization or GNSO Stakeholder Group."As an employee of CONAC, you are a member of the Registry stakeholder group and have played an active role representing CONAC in the Registry Stakeholder Group (RSG). CONAC is a domain name registry, which has its own Stakeholder Group, where your affiliation with CONAC as an employee is persistent and strong. We understand that before CONAC was a TLD registry, its employees were admitted into NCSG because there was no other place for them to be represented and there was less of a conflict of interest. But that time has passed; CONAC is now a full-fledged TLD registry operator and its policy interests are represented in the RSG.We thank you for your prior participation in our group and encourage you to stay involved in the GNSO via the Registry Stakeholder Group.Farzaneh Badii
Caribe Joao Carlos 
Rafik Dammak
Grace Githaiga 
Milton Mueller 

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